SIRIUS is once again heavily involved in the November Conference in Rio de Janeiro. This year the event is virtual, with a plenary on 9th November 2020 and parallel sessions on various days in October, November and December 2020. David Cameron is chairman of the program committee for the conference.

SIRIUS is also co-organizer of the session on Digitalization and Autonomy on 10th November 2020. Geir Horn and Marta Rozanska will be presenting their work in this session.

For more information, see the Innovation Norway website:

https://www.innovasjonnorge.no/en/start-page/norway-brazil-weeks/program/

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https://2020.declarativeai.net

24 June – 1 July 2020
Oslo, Norway

Welcome to Declarative AI 2020, an event co-organised by SINTEF AS, University of Oslo, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, under the umbrella of the SIRIUS Centre for Scalable Data Access. The event aims at presenting the latest advancements in AI and rules, reasoning, decisions, and explanations and their adoption in IT systems.

Keynote speakers:

• Derek Miers (Gartner, United Kingdom): “What The Real World Needs From Decision Management, Reasoning and AI”
• Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck, Austria) “Knowledge Graphs: Methodologies, Tools, and Selected Use Cases”
• Eyke Hüllermeier (Paderborn University, Germany) “Multilabel rule learning”
• Arild Waaler (University of Oslo, Norway)

Declarative AI 2020 brings together three co-located events:

1. The 4th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning
   (RuleML+RR 2020) http://2020.ruleml-rr.org Target audience: Academia and industry working in the area of AI and rules
2. DecisionCAMP 2020 https://decisioncamp2020.home.blog Target audience: Digital decisioning practitioners (Business Analysts, Business Experts, Developers or Architects)
3. The 16th Reasoning Web Summer School https://2020.declarativeai.net/events/rw-summer-school Target audience: Postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdocs,
   young researchers, and senior researchers

Call for contributions:

• RuleML+RR Call for Papers: http://2020.ruleml-rr.org/pages/ruleml-rr-cfp
• DecisionCAMP Call for Presentations: https://decisioncamp2020.home.blog/call-for-presentations
• RW Summer School Call for Applications https://2020.declarativeai.net/events/rw-summer-school

Core organization team

Declarative AI 2020:

Chair – Till C. Lech (SINTEF AS, Norway);

Logistics Chair – Inger-Lise Reang (University of Oslo, Norway);

Sponsorship Chair – Anders Bryhni (SINTEF AS, Norway),

Publicity Chair – Hilde Marie Fjære (SINTEF AS, Norway);

Financial Chair and Webmaster – Ahmet Soylu (NTNU / SINTEF AS, Norway)

RuleML+RR 2020:

General Chairs – Dumitru Roman (SINTEF AS / University of
Oslo, Norway), Martin Giese (University of Oslo, Norway),
Ahmet Soylu (NTNU / SINTEF AS, Norway);

Program Chairs – Víctor Gutiérrez Basulto (Cardiff University, UK), Tomas
Kliegr (University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic)

DecisionCAMP 2020:

General Chair – Jacob Feldman (OpenRules, USA)

Reasoning Web 2020:

General Chairs – Andreas Pieris (University
of Edinburgh, UK), Marco Manna (University of Calabria, Italy)

Interested to become a sponsor for the event? Check out available sponsorship packages at https://2020.declarativeai.net/sponsors.

Check out further details at https://2020.declarativeai.net, and see you in Oslo!

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This paper describes computer science aspects of the work in SIRIUS’ Geological Assistant beacon project. The authors come from three different research programs: Ontology Engineering, Analysis of Complex Systems and Industrial Digital Transformation. Irina Pene is a geoscientist. The work described is truly interdisciplinary and shows how SIRIUS brings together diverse skill sets to build good research with an industrial application.

The geological assistant project is being done in collaboration with Schlumberger and Equinor. A prototype version of the tool developed by the team was presented at Schlumberger’s annual customer conference in Monaco in September.

You can read the paper at https://ojs.bibsys.no/index.php/NIK/article/view/640

The Norwegian Informatics Conference (NIK) has been an annual event since 1988. The 32nd edition
of NIK was organised by UIT Norway’s Arctic University, Department of Computer Technology and
computational engineering. The conference took place at the Quality Hotel Grand Royal Narvik,
as part of the Norwegian ICT conference for Research and Education.

NIK is a broad national conference for dissemination of research and advanced development work
in computer science. The conference invites the submission of articles in different genres and
topics related to theoretical and applied informatics. NIK opens up for interdisciplinarity and diversity in
relationship to methodological approaches and areas of application.

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You can read more and register for the workshop at the web site https://fmail.isp.uni-luebeck.de.

Logistics is the process of planning, implementing and controlling procedures for the efficient and effective transportation and storage of goods including services and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption for the purpose of conforming to customer requirements. Planning is the process of identifying, scheduling and tracking activities needed to achieve a specific goal, be it in the area of maintenance, production or development. The resulting work plans serve as input and trigger for logistics, and are in turn influenced by it. Logistics 4.0 advocates the universal digitalisation of the whole supply chain to help to automate, verify and coordinate the execution of the procedures among the different stakeholders involved, in nearly real-time, enabling a faster reactivity and resources savings. It includes especially also methods for accounting and contract negotiations between the stakeholders, a field addressed in AI. The workshop is dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice for software systems and processes dedicated to logistics and planning. The goal is to provide a symposium for engineers, researchers and business specialists to exchange experiences and problematics in the area. Original research contributions and experience papers on the principles, design, implementation, modelling, analysis, verification, and application of Software or Decision Procedures for logistics systems are solicited.

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This workshop is the major annual event of the description logic research community. It is the forum at which those interested in description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss ideas, share information and compare experiences.

The conference website contains the proceedings and program for the meeting.

An industry panel was held on the evening of the 19th. A report on the panel sessions, together with the presentations may be found here.

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Can I safely share my industrial data with academics?

The SIRIUS Centre at the University of Oslo and Energy Valley invite you to a breakfast seminar on the digitalisation of engineering and heavy industry. Our guest lecturer, Professor Melinda Hodkiewicz from the University of Western Australia will be giving two presentations.

Time: 08:30-11:00, Monday 24^th June 2019

Place: Smalltalk Lecture Theatre, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Gaustadalléen 23B, Oslo.

Please register by Thursday 20^th June at https://nettskjema.uio.no/a/siriusenergyvalley  

Transforming Maintenance through Data Science

Effective maintenance of engineering assets underpins the NOK 1,238 billion/year of export earnings from Australia’s resources sector. Significant corporate strategic focus and government funding is being directed at Industrie 4.0 projects but there is a massive disconnect between the 4.0 vision and today’s business practices. Historical practice for maintenance data collection, processing and use is not a solid foundation for the future. Maintenance management practices have also changed little in the last 20 years and are ripe for a digital overhaul that will bring developments in computational methods, statistics, applied mathematics and artificial intelligence to determine how, when and why maintenance is conducted. Collaboration with industry is key to this transformation. This talk describes how this challenge is being tackled by a new industry and government $8.8M co-funded Australian research group. Our goals are to enable development and adoption of new practices to improve productivity and asset reliability for industry and to foster a new maintenance technology service sector for national and international markets.

Data Risk Assessment Tool for industry-academic collaborations

For research in the fields of engineering asset management and system health, relevant data resides in the corporate systems of asset owners, typically corporations or government bodies. The process for obtaining a required dataset from these asset owners can be challenging. When data is provided to the researcher, unilateral restrictions on subsequent publication of results and/or data are often imposed, irrespective of risk. To facilitate a more consistent approach towards releasing data, the authors have developed a Data Risk Assessment Tool (DRAT) for evaluating the risk posed by providing datasets to academic entities for research purposes. This presentation describes the issues considered when developing the tool, describes the DRAT process and suggests exemplar management controls that data owners and researchers can implement based on each level of aggregated risk. The process has been reviewed and approved for use by research legal advisors of two global organisations, tested by an industry collaborator and post-hoc tested on industry-funded research projects.

Professor Melinda Hodkiewicz is an engineering academic working on multi-disciplinary projects to improve maintenance, asset management and safety practices. She has a 5 year A$1.3M Fellowship at the University of Western Australia funded by BHP, a major resources company and is a Visiting Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in the UK. She is actively involved in the development of ontology and natural language processing of maintenance and safety unstructured records which in turn assists the maintainer of the future. She is on the leadership team for the new ARC funded $8.8M Centre for Transforming Maintenance through Data Science, co-leads the data science program for the $10M ARC Offshore Structures Hub, and established the UWA System Health Lab. She has a number of external roles including Board member of Australia’s National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) and Advisory Board member for the Australian Government’s METS Ignited. She was the Australian representative on the original ISO 55001 Asset Management committee. In 2016 she was awarded the MESA Medal for services to the AM community.

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The second day started with presentations from two new partners: Aibel and SINTEF. This was followed by research keynotes by Martin G. Skjæveland, who presented the Ontology Engineering research program, and Geir Horn, leader of the Scalable Computing program, who presented the Melodic EU project and its linkages to SIRIUS. The meeting concluded with a poster session highlighting our research programs and individual Ph.D. projects.

The business meeting held on the afternoon of the 21st approved two new partners in SIRIUS: SINTEF Digital and Aker Solutions.

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The conference was very interesting and rich in content. It started with an informative and enlightening mini-course on digitalization concepts by workers from SINTEF DIgital. Presenters at the main conference included Tina Todnem from Equinor and Walter Qvam from DigitalNorway. The afternoon session on open data access was especially interesting, with a description by Equinor of their Volve data set, the Mongstad Technology Centre of their data sharing, Cognite of their work on liberation of operational data and SINTEF on models for open software development.

You can download the SIRIUS presentation here.

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Digital Technology Park

Talks will be given on Thursday 22nd March by Arild Waaler on Digital Twins, Digital Threads and Requirements and Jacopo Mauro, on HyVar, the Internet of Things for Automotive applications. Come and meet us at our stand on Wednesday and Thursday.

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EBDVF 2017, jointly organised by the European Commission, the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) and EDF (European Data Forum), will take place on the 21-23 November in Versailles and it will be a key European event for industry professionals, business developers, researchers, and policy makers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of the European data economy and data-driven innovation in Europe.

Since it is a great opportunity for engaging and boosting your business around big data and data driven domains, we would like to invite to register for your participation here.

Registration to the European Big Data Value Forum is FREE.

You can find further information on the event website: http://www.european-big-data-value-forum.eu/

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